Steinbeck uses the psychological approach to develop how man's strife for wealth destroys. There are many different types of destruction portrayed in The Pearl. First, while Kino sits thinking of the pearl buyers, "In his head he only [hears] the dark music of the enemy" (Steinbeck, pg. 55). Also, according to Peter Lisca, Kino is " . . . attacked and wounded three times; beats and kicks his wife Juana his house is burned . . . and his son is killed" (Lisca, pg. 125). Both of these incidents show how once Kino achieves wealth he changes from kind to ruthless and from the hunter to the hunted. Kino's personality because of his new wealth turns him into a savage and gives him more ignorance then he had before. Next, as Kino stares out of his hut

The family learns many life lessons from the pearl. After one of the attacks Kino argues with Juana that " . . . he will fight this thing . . . [they] will have [their] chance" (Steinbeck, pg. 57). According to Lisca when Kino offers the pearl to Juana after saying he will fight till the death, " . . . he is admitting he was wrong and that Juana had been right" (Lisca, pg. 227). According to Elysa Loyd the book " [ dramatizes] man's struggle to know . . . value, a struggle complicated by his . . . position between the material . . . and the spiritual world" (Loyd, pg. 318). Similarly Lisca describes the end of the book as "Kino and Juana [returning] to the garden of Eden, [putting] the apple back on the tree as it were" (Lisca, pg. 137). Kino being trapped in this state of mind can not decide the right thing to do, throw the pearl back, or the materialistic choice, risk more lives but become wealthy. Throwing the pearl back symbolizes his understanding of his previous mistakes. According to Unger, " The pearl which should have . . . [helped] fulfill Kino's ambitions . . . [produced] only suffering" (Unger, pg. 62). Also, as Lisca says Kino thought the pearl would produce " . . . salvation for he could in advance purchase masses sufficient to pop him out of Purgatory like a squeezed watermelon seed" (Lisca, pg. 315). Kino realizes that the pearl can not do the things he thought it could, but rejects this reality until after mass destruction has already occurred. Kino's rejection of this reality shows us the pain he feels from knowing that his dream will not come true. Kino finally learns the lesson that lay before his eyes, that dreams that cause pain are usually not everything they were meant to be.

In conclusion, men only think that money can solve every proble

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